St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-30

TINS world to give you. But here is a lnush-
melon IN the wagon, and l want to give 1t to
| you. said. Good woman, do you reckon
| can stand on that and pray? Sister. that's q
very soft thing 10 stand upon. But the
! good dear woman would make me take
| the mushmelon, and during that meet
| ing her boys were soundly converted to God.
! NV, my, something TO stand on. and you are
laughing at that and there is just hundreds
OF you that haven't got amuShmelOE to stand
on. Laughter. That's true. Something
to stand on when pray. What do you mean
| by that? l mean this: If have got a boy
that is unconverted am going to hunt him
up this afternoon, and am going to say,
Son, am going to pray for.
believe it is q good time to save you
And then go into your closet and kneel down
| on the floor and pray God to do for your boy
all you can't 10 yourself. And kneel down
| on your prayer and exhortation to your boy
and pray again, and everything you do make
that the foundation on which to stand to
| pray, and keep a-talkng, and keep a-work-
| ing, and keep a-praying, and by and by you
| will have a foundation on which you can
| stand, and you will have the power of God
down upon the object for which you prayed.
| When you pray. When you pray. 1 heard
| the same preacher whom talked about just
now. He told me at
A CAMP-MEETING
| down in Georgia-the meeting had been rum
ming three or four days-and nobody was
converted, and after he was through preach
| ing on one occasion, he called up penitentS.
About sixty came up and knelt around the
altar. And he said he looked over, aud called
Oh an old steward to pray. And the old
steward got on his knees and commenced
this way. On, Lord, God, you wont hear me
pray, and you wont hear Brother Brown
pray either. We are both stewards in the
same church. And there is poor widow
living right between us, and she has been
| plowing in the field this year and she has not
| had any meat half the time, nor a particle of
| sugar or coffee in her house, and Oh, Lord,
| God, you wont hear a man pray who
| allows poor woman to work in the
| field, and her without neither
meat, sugar nor coffee. But good Lord if
| you will hear me just this once, as soon as
get home l am going to send her load of
| flour and put in some sugar and coffee and
meat and make Brother Brown do the same.
And you know Lord always do what say
will. And here it is August and ! haven't
paid cent this year and Brother Brown
| hasn't paid cent neither, he's
you will hear my prayer, will
give ten dollars, and l know Brother
! Brown will give ten dollars, too, to the
, preacher as soon as get off my knees. And
| I'll make Brother Brown do it, and you know
what say I'll do I'll do. And the preacher
told me. thought the old fellow was going to
| break up the meeting and ruin the whole
| business, but he kept on after that fashion
| until he had got the way cleaned out between
| him and God, and forty-tive of those souls
were converted before the old man had got off
! of mis- knees. There amt anything like
cleaning out the way. Oh, Lord, l haven't
| done
| THE CLEAN THING.
Oh, sLord. you wont hear me pray. Aud if
you haven't been doing right and doing the
clean thing, you needn't 90 whining around
| the Lord. 1t isn't worth the pop of your fin
|
| bleeting over me, as to have you praying over
| me; one is just about as effectual as the
other. Power with God in prayer. Why
| look how our forefathers used to pray. I re-
member brethren just as well in my youthful
| days how the good old men in the church
would get down on their knees and pray with
such power that the very presence of God
! would be felt all over the audience. Haven't
you seen itY Haven't you felt it? God is as
| powerful as he has ever been. But the
trouble is we have got so few people i: these
| cities that can pray. That's it. And when
| we get down to pray if the
Lord should answer our prayers we
would jump up and run; we would just
| say: ~ didn't expect that, Lord; it sort of
scared me-" And then we pray for so many
| things we don't mean. That is the truth
| about it. When man gets down before God
of all the times in this universe that ought to
be an honest hour. l recollect visiting q
brother once, and he was member of my
| church and was about to die and he wanted
| me to pray for him to live, and
I told him 1 couldn't and wouldn't
do it, He said, ''Why?" Well" said
| 1, suppose l GO down on my knees and ask
| God to save you, and God came down and
asked me what l wanted you to live for, why.
l could not tell him to save my life. You
wont work and wont pray. 1 am not going
to ask God to save your life when its lie, 1
| don't care whether you live or die. Laughter
| And l wish every preacher was honest with
| his crowd just that way. Going
around among old tritiing Methodists
and praying God to let him stay
| here. For what? He is in the way and no
account. Well, sir, when went to leave that
| day that fellow saws: Brother Jones do you
need any corn?' Well, might need
| ALOAD OF CORN.
| And he said l will send you some. And
made a load of corn that day. A good deal
| in that--for revenue only. Laughter And
| I'll tell you people l believe it was in Gin
| cinnati when l saw telegram from New York
| that George News was in New York very ILL.,
Just'as soon as l reached home went down
before God Oh, Lord God, don't let George
News die. we couldn't get along without him
| in Georgia. Thank God, he is power, and
| whenever God wants any time or money or
| influence, he can always command that man.
| Whenever / see good man, and one that is
useful, l always want to pray to God to let
him stay here. But when 1 see tritiing
church, I just say: "Old fellow, you
| can go and die as far as am concerned.
can't fool away any time on you. And if you
! preachers will only tell it out just that way
| amt it Sodo- you care fig whether they live
| or die? And, above all things, let us mean
what we say when we get on our knees. The
| resolution of DR.. Jonathan Edwards has done
me great deal of good at this point. There
| is one resoluton-I don't remember which
| one, think about the 2Sth-and this 28th
L &l,.- al.
will never try to put Off on God or palm off on
my soul anything called a prayer that have
not every reason to believe God heard it and
answered it, My, how much good that has
| done me. Haven't you got down on your
| knees and got half through the prayer be-
| fore you thought what you were praying
| for? Haven't you said the whole prayer and
your mind and yonr heart wasn't in it? Make
| that resolution this afternoon. II will never
try TO palm off on God and my soul
| ANYTHING FOR A PRAYER
| that haven't every reason to believe that
God hears and answers Honest people.
Why, God knows all the facts just like we do.
| Prayer, prayer. want 10 see Gods people
come to where they can pray. Pray. There
is many a church member in this country
thank God he is on praying ground
and pleading terms. and he never
was in thousand miles of either
in his life. That is the highest ground a
Christian every occupies. 1t is praying
ground. 1t is up where God will hear him,
and God will answer him. How many of us
live habitually and constantly up where we
can talk with God, walk with God, ask God
| in confidence for what we want, aud receive
it because we ask it in faith How many of
us live on such Christian ground as that?
L have seen some demonstrations
of the tact that God hears and answers
prayer just clearly as sze yonder sun
shining upon this earth. believe that God
hears and answers prayer, Just as much as ]
believe that l am standing m before this au-
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